Week 10

impresario

noun

plural impresarios.

1.a person who organizes or manages public entertainments, especially operas, ballets, or concerts.

2.any manager, director, or the like.

extortion

noun

1.an act or instance of extorting.

2.Law. the crime of obtaining money or some other thing of value by the abuse of one's office or authority.

3.oppressive or illegal exaction, as of excessive price or interest:the extortions of usurers.

4.anything extorted

adverse

adjective

1.unfavorable or antagonistic in purpose or effect:adverse criticism.

2.opposing one's interests or desire:adverse circumstances.

3.being or acting in a contrary direction; opposed or opposing:adverse winds.

4.opposite; confronting

Related forms

adversely, adverb

adverseness, noun

unadverse, adjective

unadversely, adverb

unadverseness, noun

asset

noun

1.a useful and desirable thing or quality:

Organizational ability is an asset.

2.a single item of ownership having exchange value.

3.assets.items of ownership convertible into cash; total resources of a person or business, as cash, notes and accounts receivable, securities, inventories, goodwill, fixtures, machinery, or real estate (opposed to liabilities ). Accounting. the items detailed on a balance sheet, especially in relation to liabilities and capital.all property available for the payment of debts, especially of a bankrupt or insolvent firm or person.Law. property in the hands of an heir, executor, or administrator, that is sufficient to pay the debts or legacies of a deceased person.

Related forms

assetless, adjective

reprimand

noun

1.a severe reproof or rebuke, especially a formal one by a person in authority.

verb (used with object)

2.to reprove or rebuke severely, especially in a formal way.

respite

noun

1.a delay or cessation for a time, especially of anything distressing or trying; an interval of relief:to toil without respite.2.temporary suspension of the execution of a person condemned to death; reprieve.

verb (used with object)

respited, respiting.3.to relieve temporarily, especially from anything distressing or trying; give an interval of relief from.4.to grant delay in the carrying out of (a punishment, obligation, etc.).

reverberating

verb (used without object)reverberated, reverberating.

1.to reecho or resound:Her singing reverberated through the house.

2.Physics. to be reflected many times, as sound waves from the walls of a confined space.

3.to rebound or recoil.

4.to be deflected, as flame in a reverberatory furnace.

verb (used with object)

reverberated, reverberating.

5.to echo back or reecho (sound).

6.to cast back or reflect (light, heat, etc.).

7.to subject to reflected heat, as in a reverberatory furnace.adjective

8.reverberant.

fretful

adjective

1.disposed or quick to fret; irritable or peevish.

Related forms

fretfully, adverb

fretfulness, noun

unfretful, adjective

unfretfully, adverb

succumb

verb (used without object)

1.to give way to superior force; yield:to succumb to despair.

2.to yield to disease, wounds, old age, etc.; die.

Related forms

succumber, noun
unsuccumbing, adjective